Hi All, I'm creating a GUI that uses a custom skin using Synth. I would like to know more about how I can determine how much rendering is being done using the hardware acceleration on my machine. I've found that the Java 6 SE Troubleshooting Guide has some suggestions on how to do this. It mentions that the [b]-Dsun.java2d.opengl=True[/b] setting (with a capital "T") can be used to switch to using the OpenGL pipeline with trace output enabled. Another setting [b]-Dsun.java2d.trace=count[/b] provides a summary of primitives used that is dumped on application exit.
The problem I've having is that these system properties don't provide output for me - I don't see any trace output on the console. The steps I followed are: 1) compile the GUI to a jar, [b]gui.jar[/b] 2) [b]export J2D_TRACE_LEVEL=4[/b] 3) try [b]java -jar gui.jar -Dsun.java2d.trace=count[/b] -> jar runs but no trace counts on exit 4) try [b]java -jar gui.jar -Dsun.java2d.opengl=True[/b] -> jar runs but no trace provided during run The GUI is skinned using images and Java2D primitives so I expect that the mix of graphics routines would invoke hardware acceleration of some kind. Is there something I'm missing here? Were these system properties perhaps removed for the update 10 stable builds? I've tried this with Java 6 update 10 and update 13. Interestingly, the GUI ran very slow on update 10 without the [b]opengl=True[/b] setting but not in the case of update 13 so I'm assuming 13 came out with more optimised / accelerated routines. Also the [b]opengl=True[/b] setting provided some output on update 10 but not on update 13. I've tried this on Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) and Hardy (8.04). My graphics card is a NVidia GeForce series card. Thanks for reading, Mark [Message sent by forum member 'bowsermail' (bowsermail)] http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=347167 =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to lists...@java.sun.com and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA2D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to lists...@java.sun.com and include in the body of the message "help".
